Bringing Black Feminist Theory Into Everyday Practice

'Some scholars are criticized for staying within the ‘ivory tower,’ and creating work that’s only accessible to a highly-academic audience. Alexis Pauline Gumbs identifies as a community-accountable scholar and puts that identity into practice, manifested in online educational projects like Eternal Summer of The Black Feminist Mind. Gumbs recently co-edited a collection called Revolutionary Mothering: Love On The Front Lines (PM Press/2016) that brings forward the varied narratives of marginalized mothers of color and completed a forthcoming book of poetry called spill: scenes of black feminist fugitivity (Duke University Press/2016), which pays tribute to the black feminist thinkers who make Gumbs’ work possible. Host Frank Stasio talks with Gumbs and Norma Marrun, a contributor to the Revolutionary Mothering anthology.' -- WUNC's The State of Things